An educator and linguist by training, a writer and poet by nature, Marjorie Frank has authored and designed instructional materials in all subject areas. She has authored science issues of an award-winning children’s magazine and has written game-based digital assessments. She has also served on the adjunct faculty of Hunter, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Colleges. For HMH Science Dimensions, she has guided the development of K–2 strands and the approach to making connections between NGSS and Common Core ELA standards.

An educator and linguist by training, a writer and poet by nature, Marjorie Frank has authored and designed instructional materials in all subject areas. She has authored science issues of an award-winning children’s magazine and has written game-based digital assessments. She has also served on the adjunct faculty of Hunter, Manhattan, and Brooklyn Colleges. For HMH Science Dimensions, she has guided the development of K–2 strands and the approach to making connections between NGSS and Common Core ELA standards.

New education standards can bring new language to describe teaching strategies that are already in place. Here, author Marjorie Frank illustrates the Claims-Evidence-Reasoning language of NGSS with some everyday examples.